How Did Personalised Audio Help Athletes Prepare for the Tokyo Games? Listening to personalised audio combining positive affirmations, personal mantras, scientifically tested tones and binaural beats, swimmer Mack Horton improved his 2km time trial by five seconds.

[VIDEO] Carl H Smith explores the relationship between SOUND, TECHNOLOGY & CONSCIOUSNESS

As a collective dedicated to championing new ways in which sound and music can enrich, enhance, inspire and improve our lives, on Saturday 31st July 21 FutureSound hosted a special live hybrid event.

Scene veterans Lee Burridge and Jamie Jones have partnered with the meditation platform Meya (pronounced "may-a") to bring their music to the app, which combines electronic music, meditation and, the company says, "science backed sound brainwave entrainment" to create pathways to better mental health.

‘We believe we are at the very beginning of a revolution in sound. It’s where spatial audio meets ancient and future technology. End of Time is an immersive meditative sound experience fusing acoustic and digital instruments, creating music using space (3D spatial audio) as an instrument.’

Terence McKenna may have been the first but he wasn’t the only person to realise that the future of the altered state experience of psychedelics was in computers and technology.

Alexandre Tannous kicks off a new series of interviews for FutureSound Pioneers